sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
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Abstract
The importance of sound in Afro- diasporic communities hearkens back to the slave cry on the plantation field, a sound that showed there is social life within social death. These survival and resistance strategies still exist today, and are not limited to music; they can also be traced through aesthetics, as well as routes and history that connect Afro-Latinxs to the diaspora. The deployment of diasporic resistance through what Juan Flores calls “baggage,” show the possibility and radical potential for survival in white spaces. Recognizing the necessity to dismantle white heteronormative spaces, my research will analyze how Afro-Latinxs—especially those who identify with marginalized gender identities—survive using tools of resistance that can be traced back to the Afro-diaspora. I will contextualize this method beyond survival mechanisms to their influence of queer Afro-Latinx spaces. Through understanding Latinx communities in a diasporic context, I will reveal how an aural politic of resistance, which is tied to the sound and aesthetic of the diaspora, disrupts a legacy of antiblackness. My analysis will be framed through the genealogy of the Afro- diaspora and will explain how our understandings of Afro-diasporic communities transcend into current interpersonal relationships and black performance.
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Colón Cisneros, Kassandra
(2023)
"La Negra Tiene Tumbao: Multimodal Resistance Strategies of Afro-Latinxs and Other Queer Constructions,"
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies: Vol. 10, Article 4.
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https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol10/iss1/4
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